# README
# Pit Rieger
# Monitoring Coalition Partners in the EU: Strategic Committee Appointments in the European Parliament
# Political Science Research & Methods

This replication package contains the relevant data and R code to replicate the main and supplementary analysis for the paper listed above. The original analysis was run on
	
	R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
	Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
	Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.4.

For further details, see replicationlog.html. 

In addition to this readme, the replication package contains the following files: 
	1) Rieger2025_data.RData: 
		Compressed collection of all data sets necessary for the analysis as well as some utilities. 
		
	   Includes the following objects:  
		A) d_COM: commission appointment data
		B) d_RAP: rapporteur assignment data
		C) d_MEPsurvey: MEP survey data
		D) cmap: Coefficient labels for regression output
		E) cooks.distance.fixest: function for computing Cook's distance with models estimated with fixest
	   Variable names should be intuitive, but can also be inferred from cmap when in doubt.
		
	2) Rieger2025_replication.R: 
		Complete analysis script for generating all figures and tables presented in the paper as well as 
		the online appendix. 

	3) replicationlog.html: 
		logged output generated from running the replication code, including session information

For replicating the analysis, simply run Rieger2025_replication.R. Make sure here() is set up correctly to the root of this replication package.

Please contact pit.rieger@gmail.com for additional information.